A movie with the title “Maxine’s Baby” brings with it certain expectations; namely, that it will help you learn something, anything of substance regarding a person named Maxine. The new documentary from directors Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz does not fulfill that promise. Maxine in the film is Willie Maxine Perry, and the baby is her son, Tyler Perry. Over the course of its too-long one-hour and 55-minute runtime, “Maxine’s Baby” shares a grand total of maybe three facts about Perry’s mother: 1) she was married to an abusive man, 2) she was religious, and 3) she died in 2009. Any real meat about who she was as a person is cast aside in favor of picture montages and in-the-moment interviews where Perry discusses his love for his Maxine, and how she shaped him into the artist he is today. These sections universally go down like a wafer cookie: sweet but...
- 10/29/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Ultra-prolific writer-director, fiercely independent producer, pioneering entrepreneur, self-made studio chief. Any and all of these labels apply to Tyler Perry, though the one the boundary-obliterating multi-hyphenate chooses for himself is “Maxine’s Baby” — the same moniker that documentary duo Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz opted to give their motivational profile of Perry, who comes off disarmingly humble for someone who’s achieved so much. While not quite hagiography, the worshipful project is so committed to touting Perry’s accomplishments that it takes the rare step of counting his agents and publicist (whose actual job it is to hype him) among its adoring sources.
Early on, Perry’s plays and films served both to inspire and provide moral example, heavy-handedly addressing topics — such as infidelity, drug addiction and child sexual abuse — that Black audiences were more accustomed to hearing about in church than on the big screen. Today, with two dozen...
Early on, Perry’s plays and films served both to inspire and provide moral example, heavy-handedly addressing topics — such as infidelity, drug addiction and child sexual abuse — that Black audiences were more accustomed to hearing about in church than on the big screen. Today, with two dozen...
- 10/28/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, Juliene Joyner, Nicoye Banks, Jaren Mitchell, E.K. Spila, Lucky Johnson | Written by William Kaufman, Paul Reichelt | Directed by William Kaufman
Somewhere in New Orleans’ Irish Channel, “The Channel” to its residents, Jamie wakes up from nightmares about his time in Afghanistan and gives his baby girl to her grandmother before hopping into a van like any other man heading off to work. And he is on his way to work, but the job site is a bank that he, his brother Mic, and several other ex-Marine buddies are about to rob.
It should be easy for a well-disciplined and heavily armed group of men. Get in, beat the vault code out of the manager, grab the cash and get out before anyone can react. Instead, the cops are waiting for them when they leave the building. The ensuing shootout leaves cops and robbers dead and...
Somewhere in New Orleans’ Irish Channel, “The Channel” to its residents, Jamie wakes up from nightmares about his time in Afghanistan and gives his baby girl to her grandmother before hopping into a van like any other man heading off to work. And he is on his way to work, but the job site is a bank that he, his brother Mic, and several other ex-Marine buddies are about to rob.
It should be easy for a well-disciplined and heavily armed group of men. Get in, beat the vault code out of the manager, grab the cash and get out before anyone can react. Instead, the cops are waiting for them when they leave the building. The ensuing shootout leaves cops and robbers dead and...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
XFL 3.0 caps off its inaugural season with the 2023 XFL Championship Game. The DC Defenders have been the best team all year and are led by Qb and spring football legend Jordan Ta’amu and XFL Mvp candidate Rb Abram Smith. The Arlington Renegades snuck into the playoffs with a 4-6 record, then pulled off a colossal upset of the South Division-leading Houston Roughnecks, and now find themselves 60 minutes from a championship. The 2023 XFL Championship Game airs this Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. Et on ABC and ESPN Deportes, and is streaming live on ESPN+. You can watch all the action with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream.
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- 5/13/2023
- by Jeff Kotuby
- The Streamable
Hard at work on their new project, Sienna Miller and Ryan Reynolds showed up on the set of “Mississippi Grind” in New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday (February 3).
The “Proposal” hunk looked a bit fatigued as he walked around the Port of Louisiana with his newly-red-coiffed “Hippie Hippie Shake” costar after filming scenes on a New Orleans steamboat that cruised the Mississippi River.
“Mississippi Grind” also stars Analeigh Tipton, Lucky Johnson and Jane McNeill and will wrap up filming in Mobile, Alabama in March.
Per the synopsis, “Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.”...
The “Proposal” hunk looked a bit fatigued as he walked around the Port of Louisiana with his newly-red-coiffed “Hippie Hippie Shake” costar after filming scenes on a New Orleans steamboat that cruised the Mississippi River.
“Mississippi Grind” also stars Analeigh Tipton, Lucky Johnson and Jane McNeill and will wrap up filming in Mobile, Alabama in March.
Per the synopsis, “Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.”...
- 2/4/2014
- GossipCenter
Stars: Richard Moll, Mackenzie Rasman, Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis, Shawn C. Philips, Jaren Mitchell, Robert Aberdeen, Sloane Coe, Jayme Bohn, Amy Brassette, Lucky Johnson | Written by Eric Forsberg, Griff Furst, Paul A. Birkett | Directed by Griff Furst
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Scratch that. Just when you thought it was safe to go anywhere Near water, along comes Ghost Shark!
Taking the shark flick to it’s illogical conclusion, Ghost Shark sees the titular shark haunting the beachside town of Smallport after being harpooned, shot and almost blown up by a couple of shark hunters. You see Smallport has a mysterious cave that dates back to the early settlement days, a cave that was the location for a number of deaths and a cave that is the subject of a local legend which foretells that any man, woman, and in this case shark,...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Scratch that. Just when you thought it was safe to go anywhere Near water, along comes Ghost Shark!
Taking the shark flick to it’s illogical conclusion, Ghost Shark sees the titular shark haunting the beachside town of Smallport after being harpooned, shot and almost blown up by a couple of shark hunters. You see Smallport has a mysterious cave that dates back to the early settlement days, a cave that was the location for a number of deaths and a cave that is the subject of a local legend which foretells that any man, woman, and in this case shark,...
- 10/6/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The SyFy Channel loves crazy shark movies! Before Sharknado came around they had Shark Swarm, Malibu Shark Attack, Sharktopus, Swamp Shark and Mega Shark. Now they have another original shark movie coming out called Ghost Shark, and they just released the trailer and sneak peek. The film stars Mackenzie Rosman, Night Court's Richard Moll, Tim Taylor and Lucky Johnson.
It shouldn't be too hard to guess what this movie is about. It's set to premiere on August 22nd. Check out the trailer and sneak peek below! Will you be tuning in to watch it? ...
It shouldn't be too hard to guess what this movie is about. It's set to premiere on August 22nd. Check out the trailer and sneak peek below! Will you be tuning in to watch it? ...
- 7/16/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Just when you thought it was safe to switch over to SyFy...Bizarrely the ridiculous 'Sharknado', starring Tara Reid, has become one of the most talked about SyFy projects in recent memory. So what do you do about it? Try to top it by upping the ludicrous stakes. The Griff Furst helmed 'Ghost Shark' is the newest and possibly most harebrained project we've heard about in th past couple of years. Furst helms from a script co-penned alongside Paul A. Birkett and the flick stars Mackenzie Rosman, Richard Moll, Tim Taylor and Lucky Johnson. You can check out the poster plus the new preposterous trailer for the project below....
- 7/16/2013
- Horror Asylum
If you loved "Sharknado," you'll love "Ghost Shark," a new Syfy movie that stars Mackenzie Rosman, Richard Moll, Tim Taylor, and Lucky Johnson, and is set to air on August 22nd. Check out the trailer below. Plot: Last Fourth of July, teenager Christy Bruce disappeared from a high school beach party. Her severed arm washed ashore a day later. Drunken sea captain Blaise Shaw became a hero to the small seaside community of Harmony after killing the great white shark that was deemed responsible, but the Christy Bruce murder was no shark attack. Blaise turns to ghost hunter Ava Conte, who is skeptical but intrigued by his ghost shark ramblings. With preparations for a massive July 4th celebration rapidly approaching, they soon find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy of sex and murder involving the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Unprepared to contend with a Ghost Shark that can hunt on land,...
- 7/15/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
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